The Eclipse Viewer – Episode 51 – The Documentaries of Louis Malle [Part 3]

David, Trevor and Keith finish up their adventures in Malle-walking.

This podcast focuses on Criterion’s Eclipse Series of DVDs. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each box and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this episode, David and Trevor are joined by Keith Enright to discuss Eclipse Series 2: The Documentaries of Louis Malle.

About the films:

Over the course of a nearly forty-year career, Louis Malle forged a reputation as one of the world’s most versatile cinematic storytellers, with such widely acclaimed, and wide-ranging, masterpieces as Elevator to the Gallows, My Dinner with Andre, and Au revoir les enfants. At the same time, however, with less fanfare, Malle was creating a parallel, even more personal body of work as a documentary filmmaker. With the discerning eye of a true artist and the investigatory skills of a great journalist, Malle takes us from a street corner in Paris to America’s heartland to the expanses of India in his astonishing epic Phantom India. These are some of the most engaging and fascinating nonfiction films ever made.

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New Wave Film

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Senses of Cinema
Criterion Confessions

God’s Country

David’s Journey Through the Eclipse Series review
New York Times (1985)
TCM
Not Coming to a Theater Near You
The Film Sufi
Marks in the Margin

And the Pursuit of Happiness

David’s Journey through the Eclipse Series review
The Film Sufi
Film Gazette
Molodezhnaja

Next time on the podcast: Eclipse Series 17: Nikkatsu Noir [Part 1]

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